Mmmmm, the Smell of Progress...

Usually a super toxic smell that I'm not allowed to be around at the moment. Awesome. Luckily, Mr. Moneypit and Mr. Chaz Adams rocked it out so I didn't have to. :)

So we rented the big floor sander from Home Depot - note to other DIYers... the sander rental; CHEAP! $50 for the day! Sweet!! Um... the sand paper, that you have to buy... to go with it... upward of $250 for what they "recommended" for our little one and a half rooms!!! But more on that later... The boys did the coffee room... (Nick, stylin' as always)

 And the family room

 We tried to protect our new carpet and semi-furnished bedroom as best we could... though perhaps ended up turning it into a bit of a scene from Dexter...

 Sunday we returned the rental with HALF the recommended sand paper, thanks to my dad lending us this baby to finish up...

 Not too shabby... (NOTE: that was not the ShopVac we used, we actually had [also from my dad] his heavy duty dust-wrangling attachment on the ShopVac - sort of like this - if you can get your hands on one of these if you're doing this yourself, DO IT, we didn't even need tack clothes, it got ALL the dust...)

 Back to the family room, where Nick was laying down the first layer of Poly while Chaz stained the coffee room our most favoritest stain color, Minwax's Dark Walnut.

Love love love... it's so exciting, I can't wait for them to be totally done! Which will be... later this week. Hopefully.